research extra: Digital M-Z

Using her iPhone, Manon Wethly has been experimenting with liquids flying against the backdrop of a blue sky. She writes: It is absolutely fascinating to see what kind of shape an object or liquid gets when it is ‘flying’. Clicking at exactly the right second most often brings the most spectacular and surprising results.

Key words: Fast Shutter Speed - Liquid - Random - Moment - Speed - Colour - Time - Frozen - iPhone

Manuel Cosentino

Manuel Cosentino’s work ‘Behind a Little House’ is an intimate participatory art project where wall-mounted photographs and a participatory artist book lead the viewer to turn from an outside observer, a spectator, into an active participant. The first image resembles a Big-Bang like notion, that sets everything into motion, while the last picture represents a new beginning – ‘that piece of ‘carte blanche’ that we are all given with our lives’. The book is an essential part of the project. By drawing into the book everybody is free to share their dream, hopes and fears, contributing to the world behind the little house or even destroying it. ‘As for the location, I never mention where the little house is, I prefer it to transcend geographical placement and become an idea. We all live under the same sky after all… ’

Key words: Scale - Space - Home - Expanse - Sky - Fragile - Change - Time - Seasons - Weather - Nature - Motion

Marc Yankus

Marco Ugolini

A series of photographs displaying supermarket products divided per color. "I see the supermarket space as a space of manipulation. The attempt, in this action, is to subvert this structure of power." None of the products have been bought after the shooting.

Key words: Colour - Consumption - Group - Advertising - Supermarket - Shopping - Manipulation - Organise

Marek Chaloupka

Hands and feet photographed through milk glass by Czech photographer Marek Chaloupka. Looking up at these human silhouettes gives an eerie and trapped feeling. An interesting technique and new perspective on the human figure.

Key words: Figure - Shadow - Silhouette - People - Above - Glass - Below - Trapped - Hands - Feet

Marie Bovo

Mario Lalich

Mark Mawson

Aqueous Electreau is a series by British photographer Mark Mawson. The artist specializes in photographing people underwater and, in the past few years, has started to master his experimentations with vibrant underwater liquids. Mawson's inspiration came from watching milk being poured into cups of coffee. Mawson strives to achieve swirls of visually harmonizing patterns in new and captivating palettes of color. Viewers can't help but feel a sense of eeriness as the intertwining blobs rise up from the ground and the suggestion of ghostly figures emerge. The artist says, "I used colors that were very electro, hence the name and the images had a resemblance to 'ectoplasm', ghosts and spirit photography," he adds. The bright, complimentary swirls set against the dark backdrop have an intense energy that lights up each frame.

Key words: Colour - Shape - Underwater - Ink - Form - Surreal - Liquid - Energy - Foreign - Organic

Martin Klimas

Martin Parr

Matthew Gamber

Matthew Tischler

"Screen Series" is a series of photographs by New York-based photographer Matthew Tischler. Shot through window screens, netting and scrims, Matthew employs these grids and barriers in order to dissect, pixelate, filter and flatten landscapes and space. "None of the subjects in my photographs have any discernible features" Matthew says, "rather they are faceless characters whose identities are defined by their surroundings. Although the photographs originate from 35mm negatives, I hope to reference both video technology and painting techniques.”

Key words: Grid - Barrier - Technology - Distortion - Portraits - Colour - Identity - Memory - Pixelated

Menno Aden

Michael Cogliantry

Michael Corridore

Michael Hughes

Michael Wolf

Miharu Matsunaga

A series of photographs titled “ten-ten” [dots]. In order to illustrate the obvious yet often forgotten bond between man, woman, family, friend, adult, child and nationality, hand-draw hundreds of dots across the human body.

Miloushka Bokma

Mirza Ajanovic

Mitch Epstein

Moneyless

Moneyless creates the next level of what the Spanish La Pluma Eléctri*kstreet art crew calls Spider Tags: Two and three dimensional abstract installations made of cotton threads combined with geometrically paintings. The results are often impressing, especially when the installations look like wafting through the air…

Key words: 3D - Textiles - Graffiti - Shape - Geometric - Depth - Space -Thread - Abstract - Nature - Suspended

Mr T

Myoung Ho Lee

Nadia Sablin

Nan Goldin

Naoya Hatakeyama

Nick Knight

Fashion photographer Nick Knight has done a series of paint explosion pictures. At first you think you’re looking at abstract flower paintings, but then you realize, he’s actually capturing eruptions precisely in the middle of the destructive process! Brilliant.

Key words: Explosion - Eruption - Paint - Colour - Time - Fast shutter speed - Organic - Movement - Destruction

Nicola Dove

Nigel Grimmer

Nikki Graziano

Nils Orth

Noah Addis

“I am working to document daily life in the world’s urban squatter communities. Recently I have photographed in several favelas in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in the pueblos jovenes of Lima, Peru.”

Key words: Shelter - Poverty - Community - South America - Squatters - City Life - Favelas - Homeless

Noemie Goudal

Ofra Lapid

Photographs of Models of Photographs of Abandoned Buildings - For her project “Broken Houses“, NYC-based photographer Ofra Lapidcreated realistic models of abandoned buildings using printed photos, and then photographed them on an infinite gray background.

Key words: Buildings - Abandoned - Urban Decay - America - Models - Construction - Aged - Empty

Ori Gersht

Paccarik Orue

Pamela Bannos

Patricia Pastore

Peter Ainsworth

Peter Haakon Thompson

Philippe Ramette

Phillip Toledano

Platonov Pavel

PoL Úbeda Hervàs

“How do we accept that we are changing? How do we accept to see ourselves in a situation in which we can’t recognize ourselves? I’m not reacting the same way I used to do in some situations. I surprise myself, I don’t recognize myself any more. These photos express this feeling. I keep the shadow in the photo but I erase my body, because I still don’t know who I am. But I keep the shoes to make sure there’s more than a simple shadow.”

Key words: Presence - Shadows - People - Shoes - Feeling - Body - Unknown - Missing - Photoshop

Popel Coumou

Rachel Graves

Reuben Wu

Usually Reuben Wu travels where there is a sign of humanity in the landscape, for example a trace of history or a forgotten story. But his ‘Ultima Esperanza’ series is slightly different from that. It shows a popular hiker’s destination in which still was a presence of human intervention. ‘I was particularly engaged with my hike over Grey Glacier where stepping off the land onto a perilous sea of ice was an especially disorientating experience.’ His pictures of his tour seem striking and surreal, almost like shots from another world.

Key words: Landscape - Empty - Surreal - Colour - Lost - Hiking - Strange - Alien

Richard Billingham

Richard Mosse

For centuries, the Congo has compelled and defied the Western imagination. Richard Mosse brings to this subject the use of a discontinued military surveillance technology, a type of color infrared film called Kodak Aerochrome. Originally developed for camouflage detection, this aerial reconnaissance film registers an invisible spectrum of infrared light, rendering the green landscape in vivid hues of lavender, crimson, and hot pink.

Key words: Congo - Africa - War - Infrared - Colour - Military - Imagination - Surreal - Alien - Landscape

Richard Wentworth

Rineke Dijkstra

Rinko Kawauchi

Robbie Copper

Robbie Kaye

Robin Rhode

Rolf Aamot

Rolf Aamot born in Norwegian bergen September 28, 1934 is a famous painter. Since the 1950s Aamot has been a worker within the field of electronic painting. Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements.

Key words: Digital painting - Colour - Abstract - Mood - Electronic - Tone - Hue - Light - Movement

Ryan Hopkinson

Tornadoes have always fascinated me and this got me thinking about ways of taking weather elements out of context and bringing them within a controlled environment and ultimately into my own work. We managed to create twenty tornadoes, each around 4ft in height all with their own personalities and weight. The delicate nature of our creations was a big juxtaposition in many ways between natures own, but being able to create one and see it up close, regardless of its size and power was mesmerising.

Key words: Weather - Tornado - Natural - Man-made - Colour - Movement - Micro - Macro

Sakir Gökçebag

Turkish artist Sakir Gökçebag has skillfully re-imagined the idea of food through his series of artworks, where he arranges and organizes various fruits and vegetables into patterns to create striking visual displays. the pieces are not interfered with the use of digital manipulation - however combine meticulous orchestration of the organic forms with photography to create straight lines and perfect circles - geometry not found in the natural world. from watermelons to the humble green bean, gökçebag has designed structure with an unlikely medium.

Key words: Fruit - Geometric - Organised - Surreal - Pattern - Colour - Nature - Shape - Texture

Sarah Hobbs

Sarah Pickering

Schrager Victor

Scott Fortino

Sharon Core

Sharon Lockhart

Shauna Frischkorn

Shirin Neshat

Sian Bonnell

Sigurdur Gudmundsson

Siri Hayes

Soft Guerrilla

Stefan Nitoslawski

Steph Goralnick

What matters most to me is the vision behind the image, rather than the particular tool used to capture it. I shoot with everything from a Canon 5D to a Holga to a digital point-n-shoot to the box full of vintage cameras I got on Ebay for 99 cents. Each has its virtues, of course, but in a certain sense they are all equal.

Key words: Angle - Portrait - Illusion - Moment - Trick - Point of View - Personality - Suspension

Stephan Tillmans

Stephan Zirwes

Offering a whole new perspective on both natural and manmade settings, stuttgart-based photographer stephan zirwes's aerial images is an extensive series that illustrate an otherwise unseen phenomenon of texture and pattern that could only be observed from above. Rendered abstract in its composition and vantage point, the photographs range from airfields to cultured lands; from dense crowds to a lone skier on a mountainside. very often, the result is an image that depicts the gravity of isolation, showing the vastness of an environment but at a scale that is still discernible to the viewers.

Key words: Above - Landscape - Pattern - Texture - Abstract - Unseen - Isolation - Scale - Nature - Man-made - Aerial

Studio Bertjan Pot

Susan A. Barnett

Takashi Yasumura

Takeshi Moro

Tara Sellios

Taryn Simon

Terry Border

Thomas Demand

Thomas Jackson

Thomas Lindahl Robinson

Tim Davis

Tim Pickerill

Tina Crespo

The complex relationship between the natural world and the freedom it admits us is simpler here, but still memorable and profound. Nature is a recurrent theme, it seems, of her photography, and she turns it masterfully to beautiful and dark purposes in images such as ‘Dark Forest’ and ‘Salt Water Cure’ as well.

Key words: Nature - Text - Space - Vignette - Quotes - Thought - Dreams - Landscape - Circle - Window

Tobias Zielony

Todd Deutsch

Tom Bamberger

Tom Bovo

Tom Hunter

Tomas Teodosijev

From a series entitled 'My father's memories'

Key words: Objects - Possessions - Fragments - Draws - Collections - Random - Memory - Death - Inheritance

Tomoyuki Sakaguchi

Trish Morrissey

Ursula Sokolowska

The Constructed Family series 76x76cm (30x30”) Lambda prints - Edition of 7
This work examines the trauma and uncertainty carried from childhood. In particular, I am referencing my own upbringing as a Polish immigrant. There is an undercurrent of helplessness and misdirection linked to a sort of schizophrenic parenting, excommunication, and constant movement. Typically, the perception of children handed down by my elders was that children did not have a choice. Frequently, I heard a Polish equivalent of the phrase “Children should be seen not heard”. I am attempting to give these children voices.

These photographs are projection-based installations. The models are mannequins and their faces are projections. The faces of the children are slides that my father took of me when he was still involved in my life. The other slides are present day images that I have shot of my mom, my dad, and myself. My goal is to reconstruct my own childhood, empowering the past for better or for worse. The result is a troubling recreation of events that may seem disturbing but are far less in context to the real events that transpired.

Key words: Childhood - Movement - Relocation - Choice - Projection - Self - Past - Memory - Family

Wayne Lawrence

Wayne Lawrence is a St.Kitts born documentary fine art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work represents a visual diary of his life’s journey and focuses on his relationship to communities otherwise overlooked by mainstream media.

Key words: Portrait - Black - America - Minority - People -Community - Recreation - Fashion - Style - Media

Wendy McMurdo

Will Govus

Will Nolan

Sometimes a simple concept can pack a powerful punch. Such is the case with these elegantly minimal photographs of melted popsicles by Australian photographer Will Nolan. Each piece is a meditation on the fragility of life and a reminder of the everyday delights (such as ice cream!) that we often take for granted.